At first glance, this question might seem trivial. However, the process behind a browser loading a webpage is a complex marvel that we take for granted every day—handling millions of requests and intricate routing to reach servers like Google’s. Let’s take a journey into this process.

We’ll break it down into two main steps: first, discovering the site’s address, and second, retrieving data from that site. For the sake of brevity, some details will be simplified.